Saw this on Media Watch last night, and found it on their website too;
Last week Media Watch took issue with Vogue Australia - over an exclusive interview with Elizabeth Taylor which was - for the most part - cobbled together from other people's work.
We found that 15 of the 19 answers that appeared in Vogue's so-called interview came from other publications.
Vogue's Fashion Editor, Natasha Inchley, was credited with the Liz Taylor interview.
She seems to have a talent for writing stories in words that seem remarkably reminiscent of other, older articles.
Read part of Ms Inchley's story about the gorgeous violet - alongside The Times of London.
But it's not there now.
Reading on...
Whether it's Greek mythology or the latest on today's catwalks - everything old seems new again in Vogue.
In February of 2006, Natasha Inchley wrote about Ralph Lauren.
She found a love of vintage cars had inspired his latest collection.
Except that Nicole Phelps had reached that same conclusion a year earlier in Style.com.
Style.com and Vogue Australia are both owned by the publishing giant Conde Nast.
And Vogue's editor tells us "Style.com is a source of information for all fashion journalists, globally".
But does that excuse this sort of pilfering?
They're perilously similar to an article in New York Magazine.
There were some differences.
When Marc Jacobs spoke with New York Magazine, he was
Vogue's Natasha Inchley found him...
But still...
Perhaps the best we can say is that fashion journalism mirrors fashion itself.
There's the original and there's the knock off.
At nearly eight dollars a copy Vogue readers have been paying a high price for the fake.
Last week Media Watch took issue with Vogue Australia - over an exclusive interview with Elizabeth Taylor which was - for the most part - cobbled together from other people's work.
We found that 15 of the 19 answers that appeared in Vogue's so-called interview came from other publications.
Vogue's Fashion Editor, Natasha Inchley, was credited with the Liz Taylor interview.
She seems to have a talent for writing stories in words that seem remarkably reminiscent of other, older articles.
Read part of Ms Inchley's story about the gorgeous violet - alongside The Times of London.
"Twice in three years the worldwide supply of crystallised violets ran out," says Bill Keeling, of British sweetmaker PrestatVogue says that quote came from the Prestat website.
- Vogue, Violet femmes, February 2007
"Twice in three years the world-wide supply of crystallised violet petals has run out," says Bill Keeling, co-owner of confectioners Prestat.
- The Times, Violets are blue and hard to find too, by Sandra Lawrence, 15th March, 2003
But it's not there now.
Reading on...
...Greek myth has Persephone gathering violets before she was abducted to the underworld.The Times contributor who wrote the original story back in 2003, told us "Sounds as though Vogue have been rather naughty... The research was my own, every last word of it."
- Vogue, Violet femmes, February 2007
...they were the flowers Persephone was gathering when she was abducted to the Underworld.
- The Times, Violets are blue and hard to find too, by Sandra Lawrence, 15th March, 2003
Whether it's Greek mythology or the latest on today's catwalks - everything old seems new again in Vogue.
In February of 2006, Natasha Inchley wrote about Ralph Lauren.
She found a love of vintage cars had inspired his latest collection.
Except that Nicole Phelps had reached that same conclusion a year earlier in Style.com.
close-fitting jackets and skirts echoed the elegant curves of a rare Bugatti, while the train of a strapless beaded dress evoked the tapered tail of an early Mercedes.Very evocative.
- Vogue, Formula One, words by Natasha Inchley, February 2006
Close-fitting black leather jackets and skirts echoed the elegant curves of a very rare Bugatti, while the train of a strapless beaded dress evoked the tapered tail of an early Mercedes.
- www.style.com, Ralph Lauren runway review, by Nicole Phelps, 11th February, 2005
Style.com and Vogue Australia are both owned by the publishing giant Conde Nast.
And Vogue's editor tells us "Style.com is a source of information for all fashion journalists, globally".
But does that excuse this sort of pilfering?
...cropped jackets in fur-trimmed cognac leather and silvery shearling.These passages in Natasha Inchley's article on designer Marc Jacobs could also have been attributed.
- Vogue, Formula One, February 2006
...cropped jackets in fur-trimmed cognac leather and silvery shearling.
- www.style.com, Ralph Lauren runway review, by Nicole Phelps, 11th February, 2005
They're perilously similar to an article in New York Magazine.
Enter LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault who hired Jacobs, along with his longtime business partner, Robert Duffy, to be artistic director at Louis Vuitton, while also underwriting Jacob's own eponymous empire.
- Vogue, The man who fell to earth, Natasha Inchley, October 2006
In 1997, LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault hired Jacobs, along with his longtime business partner, Robert Duffy, to be creative director at Louis Vuitton, while also underwriting Jacob's own eponymous empire.
- The New York Magazine, Lost and Found, by Amy Larocca, 5th September, 2005
There were some differences.
When Marc Jacobs spoke with New York Magazine, he was
Vogue's Natasha Inchley found him...
But still...
Perhaps the best we can say is that fashion journalism mirrors fashion itself.
There's the original and there's the knock off.
At nearly eight dollars a copy Vogue readers have been paying a high price for the fake.
Now every time I pick up Australian Vogue I wonder if everything I'm reading is unoriginal.
With the amount of articles that reference British centric things (be the drinks or designers) little of this comes as a surprise.
Its not like she even really tries to rewrite it in her own words! It is blatant copying!
And... more trouble for Australian Vogue after being criticised for putting a 15 year old girl on the cover.
Okay, that I think is utter crap. If she was 9 I might care, but 15 I don't see the issue with.
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